First Attempt For A Final

I decided to experiment further with the last fastening of attaching three together by the side, to continue the experiment I decided to see what would happen if I kept attaching these three shield shapes together by the sides, I started by attaching three together, one behind and one underneath to see if this would give me bigger more interesting effect...

I then started adding more of the three shield shapes in by attaching them to the side of another shape where they would fit, it started to look quite interesting and carry off my floral theme a bit with some of the inspiration from atoms too...

I decided to fit in as many as I could to make a big kind of spiky ball shape from this, I thought this could look like a whole atom or the head of a flower. When I had attached all I could fit I came out with this outcome...

I didn't really like it in the end, I think I got a bit too carried away with it and attached too many so it looked a bit messy and crowded. When I showed Richard Sweeney he said it reminded him of a radiolarian, which is a minute sea creature so I decided to look into this...

I think it does look similar, this would have been a great thing to look into before I started my final so I could of made a better plan of how to build it rather than just seeing what would happen...

However I'm still not happy with this as my final piece so I'm going to continue with experiments...